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Re: Vowel "colors", was "colored scripts" etc.

From:Irina Rempt <irina@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 22, 2002, 9:34
On Monday 21 January 2002 21:51, Danny Wier wrote:

> Lemme think about that.... if the octave in Western equal > temperament tuning is divided into 12 equal parts, then the color > wheel would be used at 12 equadistant points. Red would be assigned > to C, giving the following:
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> But all this can be a problem unless you're really good at seeing > colors; same goes for vowel descriptions....
I see another problem: this presupposes that everyone uses equal-tempered tuning. Our a-cappella choir, singing very close to mean-tone temperament, would make loads of grammatical errors :-) Irina -- Varsinen an laynynay, saraz no arlet rastynay. irina@valdyas.org (myself) http://www.valdyas.org/irina/valdyas